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Sunday, January 02, 2011

Equality: the ticket to greater citations?

'Tis the season for navel-gazing over the winter holidays . . . Readers may be aware of the programme Publish or Perish which permits you to run citation searches for authors, journals, etc. I thought I would take a brief look to see which articles were the most cited from Ethics. What I found was the following:

Looking at this (and also for other journals, such as Philosophy and Public Affairs), many of the top cited articles appear to directly or indirectly address the topic of equality. Readers interested in increasing their citations may consider changing their planned future projects accordingly . . . . .

A somewhat different count can be made using the Web of Knowledge database. This counts only citations in journal articles published in journals in that database. It's less clear what is counted using Google and Publish or Perish, although clearly it counts many more things.

Thom Brooks

About Me

I'm Professor of Law and Government at Durham University's Law School. I'm also Associate Member of the Philosophy Department. I'm originally from New Haven, Connecticut and currently a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School. I've previously held visiting positions at Oxford, St Andrews and Uppsala and previously taught at Newcastle University. I'm founding editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy which I started in 2003 while a graduate student.

My current research interests are immigration law and policy (esp citizenship) and sentencing law and policy (esp theories of punishment and the use of sentencing guidelines). I'm also working on the capabilities approach and global justice as well as my longstanding interests in the work of Hegel and the British Idealists.